ArticlePsychiatry research2016
An investigation of habit learning in Anorexia Nervosa.
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- Altered value-based decision-making in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Shifting the balance between goals and habits: Five failures in experimental habit induction.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2018Trial
- Recovery From Anorexia Nervosa: A Concept Analysis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Review
- Avoidance habit learning in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa: an fMRI study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making in Anorexia Nervosa.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- The CogLearn Toolkit for Unity: Validating a virtual reality paradigm for human avoidance learning.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Exploring Habits in Anorexia Nervosa: Promise, Pitfalls, and Progress.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation in adult patients suffering from severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (STIMARS): protocol for a pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Temperament impact on eating disorder symptoms and habit formation: a novel model to inform treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Habits and Persistent Food Restriction in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Food Restriction in Anorexia Nervosa in the Light of Modern Learning Theory: A Narrative Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Impaired belief updating and devaluation in adult women with bulimia nervosa.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Increased Habit Frequency in the Daily Lives of Patients with Acute Anorexia Nervosa.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Characterizing cerebral metabolite profiles in anorexia and bulimia nervosa and their associations with habitual behavior.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Beyond Description and Deficits: How Computational Psychiatry Can Enhance an Understanding of Decision-Making in Anorexia Nervosa.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- White matter tracts characteristics in habitual decision-making circuit underlie ritual behaviors in anorexia nervosa.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Reward Learning Through the Lens of RDoC: a Review of Theory, Assessment, and Empirical Findings in the Eating Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Cholinergic dysfunction in the dorsal striatum promotes habit formation and maladaptive eating.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2020Article
- Embodiment as a Paradigm for Understanding and Treating SE-AN: Locating the Self in Culture.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a disorder characterised by compulsive behaviour, such as self-starvation and excessive exercise, which develop in the pursuit of weight-loss. Recent theory suggests that once established, compulsive weight-loss behaviours in AN may become habitual. In two parallel studies, we measured whether individuals with AN showed a bias toward habits using two outcome-devaluation tasks. In Study 1, 23 women with AN (restrictive and binge/purge subtypes), and 18 healthy controls (HC) completed the slips-of-action paradigm, designed to assess reward-based habits. In Study 2, 13 women with restrictive AN, 14 women recovered from restrictive AN, and 17 female HC participants completed the slips-of-action paradigm, and an avoidance paradigm, designed to assess aversive habits. AN participants showed no deficit relative to HCs in the ability to use feedback to respond correctly to stimuli. Following devaluation of outcomes, all groups in both studies were equally able to withhold inappropriate responses, suggesting no deficit in the balance between goal-directed and habitual control of behaviour in these tasks in AN. These results suggest that individuals with AN do not show a generalised tendency to rely on habits in two outcome-devaluation tasks. Future research is needed to investigate the potential role of disorder-specific habits in the maintenance of behaviour in AN.
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